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Dave Chandler, lead Intellivision designer, dies->

Submitted by LoTonah
LoTonah writes "Dave "Papa Intellivision" Chandler, lead engineer on the Intellivision for Mattel Electronics, passed away this morning at his home in Downey, California. In 1978 Dave Chandler and his team designed the familiar brown & gold console and the famous hand controllers. The family asks that anyone who wishes to remember Dave and his contribution to the early days of videogaming make a donation in his name to UMCOR for disaster relief in Japan. http://secure.gbgm-umc.org/donations/umcor/donate.cfm?code=3021317"
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King's Quest fan project "Silver Lining" is back!->

Submitted by LoTonah
LoTonah writes "After 8 years of development and a Cease & Desist from Vivendi, King's Quest fan project The Silver Lining is back in action.
We are extremely happy to announce that our project, The Silver Lining, will definitely see the light of day!

In a wonderful turn of events, Activision reached out to the Phoenix Online team a few months ago with a desire to revisit their decision regarding The Silver Lining. After negotiations, the C&D has been officially rescinded, and Phoenix Online has been granted a non-commercial license to release The Silver Lining!

Our team is ecstatic about this, and as hard as we’ve worked for 8 years, it’s the tireless belief and support of you, our fans, that has made this possible. We want to give special thanks to the Save The Silver Lining team, who put together and ran an amazing and organized campaign, and rallied our fantastic fans to make a difference. You made it possible once, and now we’ve done what seemed impossible for a second time! The support we received from all of you was amazing and honestly blew us away. We always knew we had some of the best fans out there, but even so, wow! We will always be grateful for your unending belief in us.

And that’s not the only good news we have for you: the first episode of The Silver Lining will be released in just two weeks on July 10th! The long wait is almost over, and we couldn’t have done it without you!"
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Power

Why Is a Laptop's Battery Dearer Than a Lawnmower's? 427

Posted by timothy
from the laptop-certainly-is-cuddlier dept.
Barence writes "PC Pro's contributing editor Paul Ockendon has bought a new lawnmower powered by lithium-ion batteries — part of a recent flood of such lithium-ion-powered garden and workshop tools which are taking over from NiCd and NiMH thanks to lighter weight, longer life and lack of the pernicious 'memory effect.' This is pretty much the same battery technology used in laptops, mobile phones and MP3 players, so volume manufacture is already established. Yet laptop manufacturers charge more per Watt-hour than lawnmower makers. This blog investigates whether such a seemingly ludicrous situation can be justified."
Security

Building a Global Cyber Police Force 155

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the i-recommend-team-america dept.
dasButcher writes "One of the biggest obstacles to fighting hackers and cyber-criminals is that many operate in the safe harbors of their home countries, insulated from prosecution by authorities in foreign countries where their targets reside. As Larry Walsh writes in his blog, several security vendors and a growing number of countries are now beginning to consider the creation of a global police force that would have trans-border jurisdiction to investigate and arrest suspected hackers."

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